Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Produced in a large-scale industrial operation. Contrasted with
hand-made .
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- adjective
manmade ; produced by humans rather thannature - adjective by extension not
genuine - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
manufacture .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective produced in a large-scale industrial operation
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Examples
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WIAN: Another activist on behalf of illegal aliens, the director of the Central American Resource Center urged San Francisco to, quote, "slow down and not react to what she called a manufactured crisis."
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KOINANGE: In the meantime, the opposition insists they'll continue to petition the election outcome, unwilling to concede what they call a manufactured victory.
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Hooper conceded the poster "crosses the line," but refused to renounce the artwork and blamed critics for fomenting what he called a manufactured controversy.
FOXNews.com foxnewsonline@foxnews.com 2011
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Hooper conceded the poster "crosses the line," but refused to renounce the artwork and blamed critics for fomenting what he called a manufactured controversy.
FOXNews.com foxnewsonline@foxnews.com 2011
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A two-time News & Doc Emmy winner and a leader in the newspolling industry, Langer, a pleasant fellow, arrived on campus and did not hesitate to begin bashing the omnipresent Internet click-in polls, which he calls manufactured data that easily "acquiesces to biases."
Bwog goldstein 2010
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About 19 million people, or 6% of the U.S. population, live in manufactured homes, the MHI says.
Mobile-Home Makers Try To Stitch Together a Rebound James R. Hagerty 2010
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Can I get a simple poll here, how many are using a computer manufactured from a for profit company right now?
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Then after all the carpenters, electricians, and plumbers are working in manufactured home factories those factories can be closed and their production move to China.
Matthew Yglesias » The High Cost of Subsidized Homeownership 2010
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I mean, sulking through the entire week's presentations because it's all so manufactured is no fun.
No Winners, No Losers SVGL 2009
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I mean, sulking through the entire week's presentations because it's all so manufactured is no fun.
Archive 2009-06-01 SVGL 2009
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